Requirements
Program Major Requirements for the Bachelor of Arts
For the lower division, one of the following courses may be selected as the requirement: SWMS 210 Introduction to the Study of Women and Men, SWMS 225 Sex Similarities and Differences: A Multidisciplinary Approach or SWMS 230 The Gender Question in Modern Western Culture. For the upper division, 32 units of SWMS courses, including SWMS 301, 311 and 410, are required.
Program Minor Requirements
The program offers a minor for students specializing in other disciplines. The minor differs from the major in that it reduces the number of courses and does not require the intensified course work associated with an internship and the senior seminar.
Twenty units of course work are required for the university minor program in the Study of Women and Men in Society: SWMS 210 or 225 or 230 and 301, and three additional upper division courses.
Graduate Certificate Program
Graduate students intending to concentrate in women's and men's studies must be admitted to a USC graduate or professional program. While meeting the requirements for a departmental graduate degree, they may earn a certificate of competency in the study of women and men in society. To earn a certificate, students must take SWMS 560 and several other courses from the SWMS list of graduate level courses, 500 and above, to a total of at least 12 units. No more than four units of directed research may be taken. Each academic department will determine the number of units completed which may be applied to the student's graduate degree in that department.
In addition to the completion of course requirements, students must include a focus on gender as part of their major department master's thesis, doctoral dissertation or law review note. Or they may take an oral examination on three research papers they have written within the areas of women's and/or men's studies and on relevant graduate work pertaining to the field of feminist studies. The oral exam will be administered by members of the SWMS faculty. A SWMS faculty member will be assigned as an advisor for each student. SWMS faculty will be responsible for judging the adequacy of the feminist studies analysis in the student's thesis, dissertation or oral examination.
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Joye Day
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